What are American dry-goods? Asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry.
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Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.(Oscar Wilde's dying words)
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The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.
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The ages live in history through their anachronisms.
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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
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The only good thing to do with good advice is pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself.
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One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.
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The play was a great success, but the audience was a total failure
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In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.
The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
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It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.
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I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.
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If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
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It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon
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Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
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